What are you cutting 2024? - pics welcome

[BargeMonkey]

 The irony is, even if they go on strike and everything shuts down, I've still gotta come back to work because they never lay the engineers off. I was hoping for a few extra weeks off to cut wood 😆

[doc henderson]

Jimmy and i were finally cutting some sentimental walnut brought to us by Chuck, a relative of Jimmy and Kathy.  He was dx. with leukemia a month later and has passed.  the logs have been here a few years and have been moved.  I had a pallet with 4 logs on it, but there was a long ganglier one I had to look for.  I thought it may have been this one, due to the color.  but one cut and I knew for sure. 


Ol Yeller.  you can see the color change with uv and air.  it barely is below the surface. 





also, be aware of fire risk.  this log had a twig sticking out, and against the muffler.  It smoldered for a while.



Mulberry makes great firewood for a good stove at 25 million BTUs per cord.

[doc henderson]

Sawdust Jimmy found a pic he was sent from the farm of the logs, and I was able to find the log in question.  It is good to have a photographic record, especially for sentimental logs.  this is what we had from a few years back.  this log is 15 feet and takes many turns.  It was not deemed valuable until Chuck passed and now every scrap will be used for gifts to the family. 





These are the visual clues to fine this big log on top. 

[Nealm66]

I'll try to get some better pictures but helping an old friend (72) log a couple load of some pretty nice second growth cedar. Some a little better than 4 foot. Interesting part is he had them come in and limb them and take the bows which he said he got around 3k for. Crazy how much work had to of been put into limbing these things up and picking the bows and transport.

[Nealm66]

Definitely on the struggle bus getting around through the limbs to chop one down. I should add, my 72 year old friend is running his old garret 21 and not giving me 10 seconds to take any pictures lol

[Nealm66]

Oh, and he's logging this for his 90+ year old mom who is in great shape! 

[barbender]

By bows, do you mean boughs? English is a messed up language when it comes to spelling. You cut boughs off of a tree, bow in thanks, and then make a bow out of the wood🤦

[Nealm66]

Probably boughs? For Christmas reefs

[Nealm66]

Climbing and limbing around a 4' cedar tree probably around 100' for those boughs seems crazy to me but evidently it's a thing 

[SwampDonkey]

Some folks use white cedar here, but not commercially. Most are cut from balsam fir and tipping season is probably 3 or 4 weeks away here. Been so warm. Been 70° the last two days. No sign of rain for the work week.  We put up a white cedar one Christmas for our tree. Field grown, they are quite bushy. Just wild ones.

[Nealm66]

Here's a decent sized one and an excellent example of what it looks like when they hit the ground lol

[Resonator]

Yes cutting boughs (rhymes with "cows") is big business at Christmas time. The Christmas tree grower I worked for had pickers bring in fresh cut and tied bundles of spruce, pine, fir, etc. They bundles were weighed, and then they were paid by pound for what they bought in. Cedar was the top price, especially with good color and lacey texture. The boughs were then cut and wired together on steel rings to make wreaths of different sizes and patterns.

[quilbilly]

We've cut after bough guys go in. The cedar just crumpled on any berm there was. Could only make short wood out of it. 

We did a job one time where the landowner got over 30k from cedar boughs. 

[SwampDonkey]

He must have a lot of bows for that money. But of course they pay crazy money out there for cedar shake blocks to. Where I worked they paid $800 a stacked m3, air lifted to a road landing. Up here they wouldn't pay that for white cedar if it were 6 m3.   White cedar logs are crazy cheap and getting harder to source. Lots of stands have been clearcut off. Several cedar mills here have closed up in the last 10 years. My cedar stand grew back well here. Many grow back to mostly aspen or balm with black ash and white elm mixed in. Although I did have a couple narrow runs that grew back to balm and white birch. That balm ground will eventually have cedar grow under it (and mine is) which will take over when the balm dies.

[Machinebuilder]

Well, the tree service got here a bit late, 11:30a and left at 3:00p.

They said the previous day a coworker hit a big underground wasp nest and they had to leave the equipment on that job.

They are scheduled to be back here next Monday.

They started to work on the smaller tree and found more limbs going into the holly tree than expected. They got things cut back and should be ready to fell it first hing Monday.



That lift is really cool, It is quite heavy and with the soil a little wet there are some ruts left.

They did a beautiful job on cleanup and I will have a bonfire when it dries out some

[Nealm66]

We've cut after bough guys go in. The cedar just crumpled on any berm there was. Could only make short wood out of it.

We did a job one time where the landowner got over 30k from cedar boughs.

It definitely makes saving them out a challenge. Deep undercuts and new chains. My forearms are finally starting to feel a little better after chainsaw karate chopping through limbs for 2 days 

[Nealm66]

Well, the tree service got here a bit late, 11:30a and left at 3:00p.

They said the previous day a coworker hit a big underground wasp nest and they had to leave the equipment on that job.

They are scheduled to be back here next Monday.

They started to work on the smaller tree and found more limbs going into the holly tree than expected. They got things cut back and should be ready to fell it first hing Monday.



That lift is really cool, It is quite heavy and with the soil a little wet there are some ruts left.

They did a beautiful job on cleanup and I will have a bonfire when it dries out some

Are they feeding a chipper with that little track loader? Or hand feeding it

[Magicman]

That "Easy Lift" is very similar to if not identical to the one that my tree service used to remove my trees.  They have eliminated the need for a heavy bucket truck, much more maneuverable, and will go higher.  The one here would reach 87'. 

[Machinebuilder]

no chipper, just piling it for me to burn

[Resonator]

Neat to watch those aerial lift machines set up, I've seen they have a self leveling system built in. You hit a switch, and all 4 hydraulic outriggers come out simultaneously and adjust until the machine finds perfect level even on a slope. I always thought that would be a handy system to build into a portable sawmill.

[Ljohnsaw]

Yeah, I go up 45' in my Genie. A little unnerving. When I go up on the edge of the drop-off, way unnerving!

[barbender]

I don't think I could do 87'!😬

[Machinebuilder]

That one is 83', the crew said it might be a bit small for the big tree

I have used a 60' Grove 4x4 lift without outriggers. those really heavy tires flex amazingly with that much leverage.

I don't know if I want to go up 80'

[Magicman]

This one was 87 as is written on the partially unfolded boom.  The brand name is Easy Lift.


And here he was almost at his limit.  He was removing two trees that were overhanging my shop and shed.

[okmulch]

Cutting tall eastern red cedar.